Clothes-pin.



No.874,660. PATENTED DBG.24,1907.

J. N. 000KB & J. 0. MUELLER. CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED MATH, 1907..

UNITED snare ra'rnr orfsrcn JASPER NEWTON GOOKE AND JOHN CHARLES MOELLER, OF DAVILLA, TEXAS.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24, 1907.

Application filed May 23, 1907. Serial No. 3751228:

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JASPER NEWTON COOKE and J OHN CnAnLns Monnnnn, citizens of the United States, residing at Davilla, in the county of Milam and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

1 This invention is a clothes-pin and has for its object to provide a device of this kind made of a single piece of wire, and having improved clamping means, and also means for attaching it to the clothes-line to prevent loss. In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention, and Fig.

2 is an elevation showing position on theclothes-line.

Referring specifically to the drawing, the pin is made of a single piece of wire which is bent at one end to form an eye 5 to receive a link 6 whereby the pin may be attached to the clothes-line to prevent its loss. when not in use, the pin remains on the line and therefore is at all times in convenient position for use.

From the eye, the wire is bent downwardly for a distance as indicated at 7, and a forward bend 8 is then made and the wire extended upwardly for a distance as indicated at Q. The

parts 7 and 9 form one of the clamping jaws of the pin. the one just described and is formed by making a lateral bend 10 at the end of the part 9 and extending the wire downwardly as indicated at 1 l for the same distance as the part 9. The wire is then bent rearwardly as indicated at 12 and upwardly as indicated at 13,

the free end of the wire being twisted around the part 7 adjacent the eye 5, to form a short shank 14. At the entrance, the jaws are slightly flared to facilitate the placing of the article therebetween. The parts 9 and 11 have loops 15, which serve to increase the grip of the jaws.

Vi e claim:

A clothes-pin comprising parallel bars hav- The other jaw is a duplicate of ing an eye at one end thereof, a forward return bend at the other end of the bars, and looped bars extending from said bends and connected at their extremities] In testimony whereof we aifix our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

' JASPER NEWTON COOKE.

JOHN CHARLES MOELLER.

Witnesses:

H. S. WILSON, E. C. Wmson. 

